Oct 26, 2012 7:48:33 PM

One of the questions we get asked a lot here is “do I need male or female EC5 connectors?” There is a lot of confusion surrounding EC5 connectors and gender, and it all stems from the way the EC5 connector is designed. EC5s are made with female bullets in a male housing, and male bullets in a female housing:

Male EC5 on Left, Female EC5 on Right.

A lot of people identify these connectors based on their internal bullets. Here at ProgressiveRC we follow the industry standard convention (set by JST connectors, etc) of naming all of our connectors based on the gender of the housing. All of our connectors follow this standard with the greatest confusion surrounding EC5 and EC3 connectors. To continue with our example of EC5 connectors, this means our Male EC5 connectors have a male housing and female bullets, and the Female EC5 has a female housing and male bullets.